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September 18, 2008 Mount Holyoke News
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Where art meets community
BY KATIE FRICK ‘10
MANAGING EDITOR
Three months
ago, I experienced
a somewhat un-
BY ANNIKA YATES ’11 we’ve been able to adapt to new situations conventional spir-
A&E CO-EDITOR J: Well, before, we were physically isolated and figure it out. We are committed to the itual awakening.
he Flywheel is a community arts from the rest of town. They kind of knew ideas of it and learning how to run it. We’ve Al l egor i c al ly,
T collective based in Easthampton.
After bringing art and culture to
the Pioneer Valley area in a way unmatched
about Flywheel and would drive by and see
all these teenagers hanging out and they’d
think that’s where all that loud noise music
faced a lot of challenges that we’ve been able
to navigate and get through, like this project.
I think that’s one of our strengths, the com-
one would say
that I received
such a revela-
by any other for over eight years, the organ- happens. Because we’re moving to a new lo- mitment in the face of challenge. tion on my
ization took a year and a half long hiatus to cation in town hall, there’s going to be much four week pil-
move into a larger building. The new build- more awareness of Flywheel. It’s going to MHN: Flywheel has been around for about grimage to
ing, the old police building in the center of allow us to do more community oriented pro- ten years, which is a long time for a non- the fashion mecca
Easthampton, will allow Flywheel to take on grams, which was always the intention .We profit artspace, and you’ve been working of Manhattan. Dur-
new challenges and host a wider variety of may have Thurston Moore doing a set one with them for a long time as well. What do ing this retreat, I
projects. The new space is not open yet, but night and the Boy Scouts doing something you think is one of your most memorable ex- studied fashion
now is still one of the best times to get in- the next. periences that really makes you want to stay design and illus-
volved. As a community art space, participat- there and keep working? tration for six hours a day at the
ing involves being able to help shape what MHN: What needs to be done still before The prominent Parsons New School
the Flywheel does next. The MHN caught up Flywheel reopens? JS: Oh geez, that so hard to boil down … I for Design, the same Parsons that
with Jeremy Smith, a trustee board member think there’s nothing better than when a graduated fashion designers
of the Flywheel to find out about Flywheel in JS: Someone is working on an overall design bunch of people get together for a common Marc Jacobs, Anna Sui, Derek
the beginning of its tenth year. plan for the space that will outline every- purpose and are able to make something hap- Lam and Donna Karan.
thing that needs to get done. Once we get pen that is a success and that effects other Without any prior artistic
that plan, we’ll have these weekend work people in a positive way. The time we did a training, and having only studied
Mount Holyoke News: How would you de- parties where people will come in for a cou- Fugazi show, which was for Flywheel, a huge fashion as far as every Vogue and
scribe the Flywheel, in your own words? ple of hours and paint a wall or something. challenge. In terms of logistics, it was pretty Harpers Bazaar gone to print, I
There will be foreman type people there to intense. Everyone had a good time, and still entered in what would be 28 of
Jeremy Smith: I would say it’s a space where help out and direct. That’s actually one of the to this day people who don’t know much the most gratifying and glam-
members of the community can come and coolest parts about Flywheel, is that we have about Flywheel remember going to that, so orously intense days of my life. I
put on cultural events, artistic events, with- had people knowledgeable about certain we made a huge impact on the area with that mastered model drawing, strug-
out economic incentive. It’s free, its open, you things who teach others. effort. On the micro level, some of my favorite gled through pattern drafting,
can do your thing and it can fail or succeed. memories are us, being faced with some kind conducted Madison Avenue retail
It’s kind of a workshop for new ideas and dif- MHN: Are there any new challenges Fly- of challenge, and then reaching out to the reports and spent many restless
ferent ideas. We are trying to represent ideas wheel will face? Flywheel community and getting it done and nights perfecting my very own
and art forms that aren’t necessarily repre- accomplishing something. It seems kind of clothing collection and art ex-
sented in other places. Without that sort of JS: I know we have challenges that we can’t insignificant, but it really showcases the hibit.
economic pressure to make money, like a bar forsee. Our thinking is that our new space strength and viability of Flywheel. That’s Long before it was time to
or a nightclub has, we’re able to do that kind will have double the capacity of the old space. what I really get the most out of; those are move out of my apartment in the
of stuff. It’s going to allow us to book bands that we the most rewarding things. Lower East Side, I became aware
couldn’t book at the old space. Doing bigger of my religious coversion. New
MHN: What new projects will the Flywheel shows and bigger bands kind of opens up a To get involved at the Flywheel, send an e- York City and her illustrious style
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be planning with the new space and the fi- new frontier of learning for us. I think the mail to volunteer@flywheelarts.org. had left a lasting mark on my life,
And the winners are not...
way Flywheel has always worked is that and I’m not just talking about the
M
nancial grant?
blister scars. I am, and always
will be, a devout fashion fanatic.
Returning to Mount Holyoke,
I felt I was being excommuni-
cated from my former fashionis-
BY KIMBERLY BOYD ’10 tette life. Wasn’t South Hadley a
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CONTRIBUTING WRITER place where style came to die,
The second The Most Egregious where plaid boy shorts bred and
Once again, it’s that time of year Snub of a Show is awarded to HBO’s cloaks were cool? I had to aban-
when people who work in television get The Wire. You would think that being don the notion that everyday was
together and join in that giant realm of on HBO in this breathtaking show’s a fashion show. No longer am I
mediocrity and monotony. Yep! It’s final season, and the fact that both can- trotting in the pumps of an ur-
time for the Emmys and all the fun they didates for President have listed it as a bane artist, I am now running
bring with them. Once again, series favorite, would have made it a shoe-in ragged the sneakers of a student-
that should have been taken off the air for nominations. Somehow the great athlete. But as much as I thought
years ago gobble nominations and win work of this show was passed over yet I left fashion, I knew fashion had
awards that would be better deserved again, despite it being a critical darling. not left me. For me fashion is not
by the sneakers that Hugh Laurie The gritty realism of The Wire was as something that exists in a single
wears on House. (Tony Shaloub, I'm coronary inducing as it was heart- city.
looking at you). So instead of dignifying breaking, and it painted a vivid portrait As Coco Chanel said, “Fash-
with a response the options that I’m of what it’s like to live in a big city dur- ion is in the sky, in the street;
given for winners, I’m gonna give out ing the first decade of the twenty-first fashion has to do with ideas, the
fake Emmys to whom I consider more century. It is worth noting that the way we live, what is happening.”
The 2008-2009 television season kicks off Sun-
deserving winners. show was nominated for writing, but Rather than suppressing my ob-
day night with the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards,
The award for The Most Egregious the writing on this show is merely a session, I decided to amalgamate
airing live at 8 p.m. on ABC. Hosted by the nomi-
Snub of a Television Show is a tie. small piece of the puzzle. Crisp direc- my Parsons life with my Mount
nees in the brand new Best Reality Show Host cat-
When it comes to geekdom, the success tion as well as a character driven en- Holyoke life.
egory, Tom Bergeron, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel,
of The Dark Knight has shown that semble cast complete the picture, and Thus I would like to formally
Jeff Probst and Ryan Seacrest, the event moves
we’ve come so far, but we’ve got so far should have been more then enough to announce the commencement of
from the Staples Center to the Nokia Theatre in Los
to go. Battlestar Galactica is hands— break into the Best Drama category. my biweekly fashion column. So
Angeles. But the night isn’t about whether Probst
down one of the best shows on televi- Too bad the Emmy voters are stuck in for all the women on campus who
votes Seacrest off the island (hopefully)or if Klum
sion. If this show was set anywhere but the year when The Practice somehow feel deprived and need a fashion
bests Bergeron in a walk-off (duh) or if Mandel’s
in the future and it didn’t have robots, it became innovative as it morphed into fix, look to my column to read
head can get any shinier. It’s the nominees we care
would be sweeping the awards. The act- Boston Legal. Yeah, I still have no idea anything from runway rants to
about.
ing on Battlestar Galactica is amazing, about that either. street style selects. Until the
The shows with the most to lose are AMC’s
and this is coming from someone who Being as I’ve given some face time next…stay classy and fabulous.
Mad Men, nominated for 16 Emmys and NBC’s 30
had to be converted to the show. The to the Best Actress category, I'm going
Rock, nominated for 17. Facing off in the drama cat-
writing is razor-sharp and the mythol- to give the Best Actor category some
egory are Boston Legal, Damages, Dexter, House,
ogy entangles you almost instantly. love as well. The fact that Hugh Laurie
Lost and Mad Men. Squaring off for the Best Com-
Battlestar Galactica’s female lead, doesn’t have an Emmy yet for playing
edy prize are 30 Rock, Curb Your Enthusiasm, En-
Mary McDonnell, is perhaps the best that delightful curmudgeon Greg
tourage, The Office and Two and a Half Men.
actress on television today, in my per- House is a complete and utter sin. Hugh
Let’s not forget the most important category
sonal opinion. It’s a shame that she did- Laurie is the best actor on television.
however—Outstanding Variety Music or Comedy
n’t get nominated; she should be Period. It’s a shame he’ll never get
Special—because Mr. Warmth himself, comedy leg-
winning. Her character, Laura Roslin, credit for it. Of course if he does get
end Don Rickles is making an appearance. So be
is not only the President of Humanity, credit for it and wins...I’ll eat my words.
prepared for a night a television’s best and finest.
but she also is dying of cancer and has Seriously. I’ll cut them out of the paper
And if you’re Charlie Sheen, I would hide. No one
had people thrown out of an airlock. I’d and eat ’em. You can come watch.
escapes the wrath of Rickles.
like to see Mariska Hargitay pull that
- Joanna Arcieri ’10
off.